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Global trends.

Influencing the Aftermarket.

The world is moving faster than ever. This is an exciting time, and offers great opportunities for businesses that have the foresight, vision and long-term thinking to embrace change and to lead it. Partnering with a global leader like ZF Aftermarket is essential for ensuring your success.

We expect a number of aftermarket-specific trends to significantly impact the industry in the coming decades. Some of them are predicted to have a high potential for disruption in the next 5-10 years, while some of them are likely to be longer term.

ZF Aftermarket sees these changes as opportunities. We’re ready and preparing for them right now, and our customers should know that we are their ideal partner in the next generation aftermarket trends that will influence the idustry in the short, medium and long term.

The world is moving faster than ever. This is an exciting time, and offers great opportunities for businesses that have the foresight, vision and long-term thinking to embrace change and to lead it. Partnering with a global leader like ZF Aftermarket is essential for ensuring your success.

We expect a number of aftermarket-specific trends to significantly impact the industry in the coming decades. Some of them are predicted to have a high potential for disruption in the next 5-10 years, while some of them are likely to be longer term.

ZF Aftermarket sees these changes as opportunities. We’re ready and preparing for them right now, and our customers should know that we are their ideal partner in the next generation aftermarket trends that will influence the idustry in the short, medium and long term.

Futureproofed solutions

from ZF Aftermarket

Learn more about the answers ZF Aftermarket delivers for global megatrends and broader application requirements to keep business partners on step ahead at all times.

Learn more about the answers ZF Aftermarket delivers for global megatrends and broader application requirements to keep business partners on step ahead at all times.

Urbanization

The gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas continues to drive the mass transportation of goods and people through public and commercial transportation systems, giving rise to the ‘digital smart city’ and e-mobility.Vision Zero – a world with zero accidents and zero emissions – will only become a reality when all vehicles are electric, autonomous and connected.

Vision Zero

On the road toward this reality, ZF’s all-electric Vision Zero Vehicle is reaching important milestones in the transition phase from assisted to autonomous driving. Innovative safety systems enable the vehicle to see, think and act – even if the driver is distracted. As part of these efforts, ZF has simultaneously addressed two decisive causes of accidents.

Urbanization

The gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas continues to drive the mass transportation of goods and people through public and commercial transportation systems, giving rise to the ‘digital smart city’ and e-mobility.Vision Zero – a world with zero accidents and zero emissions – will only become a reality when all vehicles are electric, autonomous and connected.

Vision Zero

On the road toward this reality, ZF’s all-electric Vision Zero Vehicle is reaching important milestones in the transition phase from assisted to autonomous driving. Innovative safety systems enable the vehicle to see, think and act – even if the driver is distracted. As part of these efforts, ZF has simultaneously addressed two decisive causes of accidents.

Globalization

The globalization of logistics and large-scale global commerce through trucks, buses, shipping logistics and goods tracking continues to increase year-on-year. Market places become more transparent and accessible.

ZF Aftermarket’s international team of over 8,000 employees provides with 120 locations in 40 countries and 90 logistics centers products and services which ensure personal support anywhere, at any time for your mobility.

Moreover a dedicated network of 650 service partners worldwide stand for unrivaled support and individual solutions, ensuring speedy availability and maximum service quality at all times. Solving problems simply and efficiently across automotive and non-automotive – from diagnosis to maintenance and repair.

ZF Aftermarket’s international team of over 8,000 employees provides with 120 locations in 40 countries and 90 logistics centers products and services which ensure personal support anywhere, at any time for your mobility.

Moreover a dedicated network of 650 service partners worldwide stand for unrivaled support and individual solutions, ensuring speedy availability and maximum service quality at all times. Solving problems simply and efficiently across automotive and non-automotive – from diagnosis to maintenance and repair.

Globalization

The globalization of logistics and large-scale global commerce through trucks, buses, shipping logistics and goods tracking continues to increase year-on-year. Market places become more transparent and accessible.

ZF Aftermarket’s international team of over 8,000 employees provides with 120 locations in 40 countries and 90 logistics centers products and services which ensure personal support anywhere, at any time for your mobility.

Moreover a dedicated network of 650 service partners worldwide stand for unrivaled support and individual solutions, ensuring speedy availability and maximum service quality at all times. Solving problems simply and efficiently across automotive and non-automotive – from diagnosis to maintenance and repair.

ZF Aftermarket’s international team of over 8,000 employees provides with 120 locations in 40 countries and 90 logistics centers products and services which ensure personal support anywhere, at any time for your mobility.

Moreover a dedicated network of 650 service partners worldwide stand for unrivaled support and individual solutions, ensuring speedy availability and maximum service quality at all times. Solving problems simply and efficiently across automotive and non-automotive – from diagnosis to maintenance and repair.

E-Mobility

Equipped for whatever the future may bring.

In today’s ever-changing automotive and industrial landscapes, with emerging new technologies, global megatrends and broader application requirements than ever, it is becoming increasingly critical to access a range of services to keep ahead of the curve.

Regulations that set targets for fuel effiency and emissions are strongly influencing automotive, from the way vehicles are manufactured to how they are managed and driven.The development of electric-powered drivetrains designed to shift vehicle design away from the use of fossil fuels and carbon gas emissions will require different parts in fewer numbers, reducing sales of conventional aftermarket equivalents. The trend towards less individually owned cars continues, there will be fewer individual decision makers for aftermarket services to engage with.

E-Mobility

Equipped for whatever the future may bring.

In today’s ever-changing automotive and industrial landscapes, with emerging new technologies, global megatrends and broader application requirements than ever, it is becoming increasingly critical to access a range of services to keep ahead of the curve.

Regulations that set targets for fuel effiency and emissions are strongly influencing automotive, from the way vehicles are manufactured to how they are managed and driven.The development of electric-powered drivetrains designed to shift vehicle design away from the use of fossil fuels and carbon gas emissions will require different parts in fewer numbers, reducing sales of conventional aftermarket equivalents. The trend towards less individually owned cars continues, there will be fewer individual decision makers for aftermarket services to engage with.

Digitalization

The digitalization of the automotive industry and increasingly aftermarket - incorporating Industry 4.0, big data, connectivity and autonomous driving - is, and will continue to be, an established fact.

OPENMATICS’s vision is to live in an open world that is securely and intelligently connected – making it safer, more convenient and more sustainable for everybody. Whether through vehicle connectivity, mobility or remote diagnostics, OPENMATICS develops solutions before other businesses have even recognized the challenges.

Digitalization

The digitalization of the automotive industry and increasingly aftermarket - incorporating Industry 4.0, big data, connectivity and autonomous driving - is, and will continue to be, an established fact.

OPENMATICS’s vision is to live in an open world that is securely and intelligently connected – making it safer, more convenient and more sustainable for everybody. Whether through vehicle connectivity, mobility or remote diagnostics, OPENMATICS develops solutions before other businesses have even recognized the challenges.

Learn more about ZF Aftermarket expertise

and solutions on e-mobility

Parts

When you choose ZF, you have access to our intelligent electric drive solutions from electric motors and plug-in hybrid transmissions to power electronics and all-electric drives, brakes and chassis components. Our solutions cover vehicles and non-automotive applications, so whatever your focus we can help your business face the future.

Parts

When you choose ZF, you have access to our intelligent electric drive solutions from electric motors and plug-in hybrid transmissions to power electronics and all-electric drives, brakes and chassis components. Our solutions cover vehicles and non-automotive applications, so whatever your focus we can help your business face the future.

Services

From preventive overhaul of electric axles to conversion of diesel buses to electric drive for more efficiency, comfort and safety, our dedicated Service Network give you the reliability you need to be able to maintain your vehicle maintenance service precisely, enabling you to satisfy your customers.

Services

From preventive overhaul of electric axles to conversion of diesel buses to electric drive for more efficiency, comfort and safety, our dedicated Service Network give you the reliability you need to be able to maintain your vehicle maintenance service precisely, enabling you to satisfy your customers.

Trainings from E-Mobility experts

Only those who boast current technical knowledge in the field of high voltage systems will be successfully competitive on a sustained basis. Take advantage of our know-how in the field of original equipment for hybrid electric vehicles and book one of our high voltage training courses.

Benefit from our high-voltage training courses and technical knowledge in original equipment for hybrid electric vehicles. Available to authorized ZF service partners, independent workshops, appointed workshops, fleet operators and vehicle or parts manufacturers. E-Mobility training is given in the form of modular courses, with each module being as informative as it is invaluable, giving you the necessary skills to handle hybrid drives, electric drives and fuel cells safely.

Trainings from E-Mobility experts

Only those who boast current technical knowledge in the field of high voltage systems will be successfully competitive on a sustained basis. Take advantage of our know-how in the field of original equipment for hybrid electric vehicles and book one of our high voltage training courses.

Benefit from our high-voltage training courses and technical knowledge in original equipment for hybrid electric vehicles. Available to authorized ZF service partners, independent workshops, appointed workshops, fleet operators and vehicle or parts manufacturers. E-Mobility training is given in the form of modular courses, with each module being as informative as it is invaluable, giving you the necessary skills to handle hybrid drives, electric drives and fuel cells safely.

Glossary

Hybrid or pure electric drives offer a number of functions which make driving more efficient. When driving at constant speed or slightly downhill, the combustion engine is switched off and the electric motor takes over vehicle propulsion if required.

• Start/stop

Switching off the combustion engine whenever it is not required reduces consumption. This is above all the case when the vehicle is at a standstill. Today start/stop systems are therefore even integrated in vehicles without hybrid drive.

• Recuperation

When the vehicle decelerates, the electric motor is used as a generator to convert the braking energy into electric energy and to charge the battery.

• Boost mode

When full power is required in the hybrid vehicle, the electric motor supports the combustion engine. Advantage: For this reason, the latter can already be designed to be smaller and more fuel-efficient in hybrid vehicles – keyword: downsizing.

• Electric driving

As soon as electric motors drive the passenger car independently, no more emissions are caused locally while driving – and hardly any noise is generated. These are huge advantages, not least in inner city areas where strict access restrictions for vehicles with conventional drives are becoming more and more common.

• Sailing

In driving situations requiring little power input, such as when driving at constant speed or slightly downhill, the combustion engine is switched off and the electric motor takes over vehicle propulsion if required.

Glossary

Hybrid or pure electric drives offer a number of functions which make driving more efficient. When driving at constant speed or slightly downhill, the combustion engine is switched off and the electric motor takes over vehicle propulsion if required.

• Start/stop

Switching off the combustion engine whenever it is not required reduces consumption. This is above all the case when the vehicle is at a standstill. Today start/stop systems are therefore even integrated in vehicles without hybrid drive.

• Recuperation

When the vehicle decelerates, the electric motor is used as a generator to convert the braking energy into electric energy and to charge the battery.

• Boost mode

When full power is required in the hybrid vehicle, the electric motor supports the combustion engine. Advantage: For this reason, the latter can already be designed to be smaller and more fuel-efficient in hybrid vehicles – keyword: downsizing.

• Electric driving

As soon as electric motors drive the passenger car independently, no more emissions are caused locally while driving – and hardly any noise is generated. These are huge advantages, not least in inner city areas where strict access restrictions for vehicles with conventional drives are becoming more and more common.

• Sailing

In driving situations requiring little power input, such as when driving at constant speed or slightly downhill, the combustion engine is switched off and the electric motor takes over vehicle propulsion if required.